Athletic shoe



Jan. 15, 1929.

F. P. LUNDY ATHLETIC sndE" Filed May 14. 1926 INVENTOR. FRED P. Lu/vox A TTORNE Y.

Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

,UNWEDSTATES ATENT OFFME.

FRED r. Lun'nY, or WHITE PLAINS, NEW Your, Assmuort 'ro NAT IOIQTAL mum BUB- nnn, semester, or BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION or RHODE ISLAND.-

ernrn'rrc SHOE.

. Application filed may 14,

This invention relates to rubber or fabric,

and rubber footwear articles and more pa'r ticularly to an improved athletic shoe.

Shoes of the type contemplated are for use primarily upon hard surfaces, as for example, for use in playing the game of basket ball. Such shoes ordinarily have a rubber sole and a fabric upper and are subjected to and sides of the toe adjacent the sole and parallel thereto. The ribs may be separately secured to the external surface of the shoe or they may be formed integrally with a strip of rubber composition which is then secured around the edge of thetoe adjacent the sole.

The invention will best be understood if the following description is read in connection with the accompanying drawings in which: v

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the toe portion of a shoe having two ribs or guards extending horizontally around the periphery of the sole.

Figure 2 is a longtiudinal section of the toe portion of the shoe.

The fabric upper 1 has a toecap' formed of rubberized fabricQ and over which is placed a strip of rubber 3. Extending'over the lower portion of the toe-cap and joining it to the sole is a rubber foxing 4. The sole preferably consists of J an outer sole 6 of crepe or compounded rubber, anintermediate or filling sole 7, and an inner sole, 8.

Extending over the edge of the crepe or compounded rubber sole and binding it to the upper is a rubberized fabric foxing 5 Patent is:

1926, Serial No. 109,003.-

the reinforcing strip by any suitable means, for example by the use of an engraved calender roll.

It will be readily seen that guards placed horizontally around the toe of a shoe in the manner described herein are adapted to take up a great deal of the wear due to scuflling,

but are preferably formed integrally with and dragging of th toe to which such shoes are subjected. v

For the purposes of illustration the preferred structure of the toe portion of the shoe is set forth in detail but it will be un-, derstood that the invention herein lies in the provision of reinforcing means for a shoe consisting of toe strips or guards, as dew scribed, which may be used in any desired number and applied to a great variety of. shoes, the construction of whichmay be varied as desired.

.Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to protect by Letters An athletic shoe having a fabric upper, a rubber sole and foxing, a band of rubber extending aroundthe toe of the shoe and extending only along the edge of the sole and along the foxing, said band of rubber being permanently and adhesively united "to the sole edge and to-the foxing, said band of rubberhaving a lurality of ridges intev gral therewith an extending parallel to the sole edge, the lowest ridge being spaced away from and above the tread surface of the sole. l

Signed at New York, in'the county of New York, State of New York, this 10th day of May, 1926. y

V FRED P. LUNDY. 

